FTC Chairman Leibowitz to Give Update on FTC Efforts
to Protect Consumer Privacy While Ensuring Businesses Can Continue to
Innovate on the Internet

Major New Study to Be Released Debunking Industry
Claims that Digital Data Collection Is Anonymous

In Washington D.C. on Tuesday, October 11, privacy and civil
liberties experts will convene to discuss how the digital collection of
personal information harms consumers and citizens. Every day, companies amass
information about consumers via online tracking, digital devices, and public
records. These practices are largely unregulated, but have serious consequences
for consumers and society.

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz will keynote
a discussion on consumers and digital privacy and discuss the proposed FTC
framework for protecting consumer privacy while ensuring industry can continue
to innovate on the Internet.

Jonathan Mayer from the Stanford Security Lab will release a major new
study debunking the myth that
digital data collection is anonymous. The study will be followed by a panel
discussion documenting the harms
that this loss of privacy entails for consumers in the context of upcoming
privacy plans from the White House and the FTC. Featured panelists include: